PSY100H1 Chapter Notes -Human Sexual Activity, Gestalt Psychology, Human Female Sexuality

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

Document Summary

Textbook notes week 1. James mark baldwin founded first psychological laboratory in the british. Commonwealth at the university of toronto: as psychology developed, many different schools of thought developed. Structuralism: experimental psychology begins with structuralism, 1879, wilhelm wundt established the first psychology laboratory and institute in leipzig, germany. This stream of consciousness could not be frozen in time, so the structuralists" techniques were sterile and artificial. Gestalt psychology: gestalt psychology emphasizes patterns and context in learning, gestalt psychology arose in opposition to structuralism, founded by max. Two people can look at an object and see different things. The idea that mental processes occur below the level of conscious awareness, however, is now widely accepted in psychological science. Skinner believed mental states were nothing more than an illusion. Psy100: skinner wanted to understand how repeated behaviours were shaped or influences by the events or consequence that followed them.